Stowe Locke Teti is a core faculty member at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, and an ASBH-certified clinical ethicist. He is the director of the Center’s Writing Support Program and executive editor of the HMS Bioethics Journal in addition to his duties as executive editor of Pediatric Ethicscope: The Journal of Pediatric Bioethics. Stowe teaches in the Foundations of Bioethics and the Capstone courses at the Center for Bioethics.

Stowe’s clinical work has focused on pediatric ethics. Prior to joining the Harvard Medical School faculty, he completed six years of clinical training on the Clinical Ethics Consult Service at Children’s National Health Center in Washington, D.C. with Tomas Silber. He became a clinical ethics associate in 2016, the clinical ethics coordinator in 2017, and the lead clinical ethicist in 2018, implementing improvements to the Clinical Ethics Consult Service’s unit penetration, operations, documentation, and quality improvement efforts.

While in Washington, Stowe worked on collaborations among pediatric hospital ethics programs to improve clinical ethics consult case documentation and promotion of data sharing across pediatric medical centers. In 2016, Stowe and his counterpart at Washington Hospital Center founded the Washington D.C. Clinical Ethics Consortium. The DC CEC brought clinicians and scholars together from the ethics departments and universities across the Washington D.C. Metro Area to discuss issues in common and promote collaboration.

Stowe’s interest in publishing began in 2012. At the time, the field of bioethics contained over 30 journals with various focuses in both print and online, but none were dedicated to pediatric ethics. Seeing this void, Stowe began developing Pediatric Ethicscope with Tomas Silber, MD. Tomas had been editor of Ethicscope while it was a newsletter; more can be read about that history here. Soon thereafter, Pediatric Ethicscope became the first such journal, and remains the only peer-reviewed journal dedicated to pediatric ethics.

Stowe’s recently-completed research includes a 2-year study of clinical ethics consult service utilization and a review of clinical ethics consultation processes and methodology; his ongoing research involves a 30-year retrospective study of decision-making dynamics in pediatric end-of-life care, and a qualitative study of social obligation. Stowe came to bioethics following undergraduate studies in philosophy and mathematics at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where he has since delivered lectures on ethical theory and the benefits of a liberal arts education, and graduate studies in philosophy with a focus on social science, ethics, and epistemology at the University of Connecticut.

Tomas Jose Silber serves as Director for Education and Training of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Children’s National and Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Sciences at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He is boarded in pediatrics with a subspecialty board in adolescent medicine. He is Director Emeritus of the Office of Ethics at Children’s National, where he oversaw the Pediatric Ethics Program and Clinical Ethics Consult Service for many years.

A graduate of “Colegio Acassuso” and “Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires” (M.D.) and The George Washington University (M.A.S.S.), Dr. Silber completed his pediatric training at Children’s Hospital of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and upon moving to the United States completed yet another pediatric residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Children’s National, where he joined the faculty in 1973 as the Director of Adolescent Medicine OPD. Currently, he is the Medical Director of the Donald Delaney Eating Disorders Program.